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every color known to the cured-tobacco plant, and 

 milder than the better grades of the types from which 

 they are taken. 



By a proper admixture of colors and strength of leaf, 

 many brands of pipe-smoking tobacco are made from such 

 lugs, as bright, dark, brown, red, spangled, yellow, mild, 

 medium and strong. Some air-cured lugs are granulated 

 for cigarettes, the stock being furnished from the light, 

 thin products of Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, 

 Missouri, eastern Ohio and Maryland. The lugs se- 

 lected for this purpose are light in weight and color. 



Some heavy-bodied lugs are used for snuff ; some 

 lighter grades for cigar fillers, and still lighter for the 

 pipe either cut or granulated. 



Stogy wrappers and fillers, used for making a 

 coarse, common, domestic cigar, is a western-grown leaf, 

 of full length and breadth, and of light body and fine 

 fiber. Uniformly dark colors are selected. To a very 

 small extent, a red or cinnamon color is required. The 

 tobacco for this purpose must be air cured and entirely 

 free from any flavor inparted by fire or smoke. It is 

 necessary, before being used, that it shall be somewhat 

 soured by sweat or fermentation. The manufacture of 

 this class of cigars is carried on in Louisville, Ky., Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio, Pittsburg, Pa., and in Wheeling, W. 

 Va. The difference between the wrappers and fillers is 

 in grade only. What are called " self -workers " consist 

 of packages in which both fillers and wrappers are put 

 up in proper proportions. 



A plug tobacco, wrapped with fine-fibered Clarks- 

 ville tobacco, of good breadth of leaf and of a port wine 

 color, is put up in the United States for making cigars, 

 and nearly all is exported. These wrappers impart a 

 rank flavor to the cigars. They are also produced in 

 some parts of Virginia. A few of them only are used in 

 the manufacture of stogy cigars. 



